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Titles read: "A PAGE FROM MRS ROOSEVELT'S DIARY".

Kent.

Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of America and wife of US President Franklin D Roosevelt, visiting Canterbury. She meets Civil Defence workers and then goes on to see the Cathedral and meets the Dean, Dr Hewlett Johnson. Several shots of bomb damage in Canterbury; inflicted that evening by 50 German fighter-bombers.

Mrs Roosevelt then visits the small village of Barham in Kent. She looks in at a bazaar / jumble sale and sees how rural England is 'doing its bit'.

M/S of Mrs Roosevelt talking to her son Elliott who is in uniform (and is very good looking). They seem to be at an army camp.

10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.